The Attic

I accomplished a lot in the attic today. I must have been up there for at least 6 hours. It was rather warm, as you might imagine for south Florida at this time of year. If I was really organized, I would have done this in the winter! What can I say, obviously I'm not that organized. I went through boxes I haven't even seen for 10 years! It's amazing the stuff we keep, think we can't live without and then years later the only question that comes to mind, is "why did I keep this?" and worse yet, "why have I been dragging it around all these years?". I'll give you an example, I found all of the RSVP cards in their little envelopes, from my first marriage, all rubber banded together into a nice little bundle. Now, obviously you need them initially so you know how many people to tell the caterer to prepare for, but 20 years after the divorce, what possible use would I have for them? I'm sure at the time I thought I had some sort of use for them, but I guess I've changed so much over the years that I can't even begin to fathom what it might have been! I could go on, I would guess I had every birthday card I've ever received - you should see the pile of trash sitting on the curb waiting for tomorrow's trash pickup! It is very freeing clearing out so much clutter from my life. I also have a car full of stuff for The Salvation Army. The worst part is, I'm probably only a quarter of the way through the attic, but there is actually a lot of empty space in that quarter! Hopefully tomorrow I'll take some pictures, I forgot to bring the camera with me today and by the time I finished, I was so hot and sweaty all I wanted to do was jump in the shower, so there was no way I was going back up there to take pictures.

Well, I can tell you one thing, I will sleep well tonight, I'm exhausted and somewhat achey! I don't think it would have been quite so bad if I could stand up, but the hunching over so I don't hit my head gets to you after awhile! That being said, it's time for me to go to sleep! Sleep well everyone, sweet dreams.